Choose a picture. Think about what is happening. Make up a story using one of these pictures as an illustration.
Try writing your story using a writing recipe.
Phyllis Johnston, NZ writer, came to Pirongia School years ago and shared this process with groups of students and they wrote some great stories. I have modified the idea for our early writers:
Ingredients & Method: Where were you? What did you hear? Who was there? What happened? How did it end?
Example: We went to the bech.Our dog bakd at the segls.Peter and I had our tgs on and we had bukts and sads. My bukt and sad is red.I sat in the wotr but a waf came and pusd me ova.I crid and we went hom fom the bech.
(After conferencing the story would read: We went to the beach.Our dog barked at the seagulls.Peter and I had our togs on and we had buckets and spades. My bucket and spade is red.I sat in the water but a wave came and pushed me over.I cried and we went home from the beach.)
Try this recipe for those a little further along: Ingredients & Method: An opening to your story that just describes the scene. Add in a description of a sound that can be heard in that scene. Now bring a character into your story and describe them. Time for some action. Make something happen in your story. End your story by describing the scene as it now is.
Example: The waves on the beach were sparkling in the sunlight. They swished onto the sand rattling the shells on the tideline. Anna and Peter opened the car door and rushed down to the beach with their buckets and spades. Anna had a bright red bucket and Peter had a blue one.They sat down in the water and started to dig. All of a sudden a big wave rolled in and knocked Anna over. She began to cry and ran to her mum. Now only Peter played on the beach while the waves swished on the shore and rattled the shells on the tideline.
Our David Street School year 0-2 website includes a writing section, printing activities and spelling to support writing programmes. http://davidstreet.ultranet.school.nz/WebSpace/174/
Check out the Enchanted Learning ABC area for activities to develop letter sound knowledge and for some printing activities.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/abc.shtml
Here are some picture prompt pages that you might like to print, talk about and then write about.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/alphabet/pictureprompts/
More writing starter ideas http://www.enchantedlearning.com/essay/writing.shtml
Choose a picture. Think about what is happening. Make up a story using one of these pictures as an illustration.
Try writing your story using a writing recipe.
Phyllis Johnston, NZ writer, came to Pirongia School years ago and shared this process with groups of students and they wrote some great stories. I have modified the idea for our early writers:
Ingredients & Method:
Where were you?
What did you hear?
Who was there?
What happened?
How did it end?
Example:
We went to the bech. Our dog bakd at the segls. Peter and I had our tgs on and we had bukts and sads. My bukt and sad is red. I sat in the wotr but a waf came and pusd me ova. I crid and we went hom fom the bech.
(After conferencing the story would read:
We went to the beach. Our dog barked at the seagulls. Peter and I had our togs on and we had buckets and spades. My bucket and spade is red. I sat in the water but a wave came and pushed me over. I cried and we went home from the beach.)
Try this recipe for those a little further along:
Ingredients & Method:
An opening to your story that just describes the scene.
Add in a description of a sound that can be heard in that scene.
Now bring a character into your story and describe them.
Time for some action. Make something happen in your story.
End your story by describing the scene as it now is.
Example:
The waves on the beach were sparkling in the sunlight. They swished onto the sand rattling the shells on the tideline.
Anna and Peter opened the car door and rushed down to the beach with their buckets and spades. Anna had a bright red bucket and Peter had a blue one. They sat down in the water and started to dig.
All of a sudden a big wave rolled in and knocked Anna over. She began to cry and ran to her mum.
Now only Peter played on the beach while the waves swished on the shore and rattled the shells on the tideline.